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To Gen Milroy From Lt Col Stahl Aug 3 1863

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I expected to write you
before this time, but we have been
so busy that I have not been able

I find but one feeling in your
old command and particularly among
our boys and that is - give us our
own old Grey Eagle – General if ever
your get command of our boys again
set this down as correct. That every
officer and man, will stand by you, write
the last moment. This is not empty
praise, this is not blarney for any
effect, but it is the sincere honest truth

On one of our marches, the
roadside was strewn with men, who
were dying from Sunstroke- who were
suffering from disease-one hundred
ambulances were in the rear and yet
not one poor soldier had dare get
in them, some of these same wagons
were loaded with Sig?? for Headqrs
I tell you General, the great trouble
with this army is there is too much liquor

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I expected to write you
before this time, but we have been
so busy that I have not been able

I find but one feeling in your
old command and particularly among
our boys and that is - give us our
own old Grey Eagle – General if ever
your get command of our boys again
set this down as correct. That every
officer and man, will stand by you, write
the last moment. This is not empty
praise, this is not blarney for any
effect, but it is the sincere honest truth

On one of our marches, the
roadside was strewn with men, who
were dying from Sunstroke- who were
suffering from disease-one hundred
ambulances were in the rear and yet
not one poor soldier had dare get
in them, some of these same wagons
were loaded with Sig?? for Headqrs
I tell you General, the great trouble
with this army is there is too much liquor

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